Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. We remember Jon Favreau's great interview with Harrison Ford in the style of his old Dinner For Five show, right? Well, the next batch has hit and it's a doozy. Here we have Jon Favreau interviewing Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer all at once.

The interview doesn't have as much of a fun back and forth as the Ford one did, but it's filled with gold... Spielberg's story about meeting John Ford is great, Howard talking about shooting Far and Away is good and finding out about the origins of Cowboys and Aliens turned out to be a good story, too.

Check them out below!

More interviews, Favreau! We demand it! And also bring back Dinner For Five while you're at it! Don't be lazy!

Just like with the Waterworld 3-hour extended TV cut, the Far and Away tv cut is around an hour longer and is so much better than the theatrical cut. I have a bootleg DVD of it recorded from a VCR when it originally aired on TV in the late 90s, but I'd love to finally get a special edition DVD/Blu Ray release of this underrated extended cut.

Hearing that John Ford story, you realise that Spielberg's one of our last living connections to an era of film-making that's now sadly departed. Makes you wonder what, “Picture Makers”, forty years from now are going to say in interviews, “I once met Michel Bay, it was mind-blowing”, “Jack Black...what an extraordinary man”, “Paul Walker, he shook my hand”
Just doesn’t deliver the same punch, does it?

...he has to stop with this whole story of "how I snuck on the lot ". His Uncle debunked that a decade a ago by coming out and saying that he set up a job for him at Universal with an editor.
Plus, the way he tells it here is much different, and less "magical", than how he's told it in the past.

is it going ahead?..is it finito?
even if Spielberg dosnt find the time to direct due to all the other stuff maybe he could exec produce with George and someone like Abrams, Favreau or Howard could take over
2013 HAS to be the summer of Indy 5!

I used to sit next to the TV with my dinner and pretend I was invited, even though everyone on the TV ignored me when I tried to say something, but I was used to that because my family used to do the same thing. Sigh.

There, I said it. Okay, Skull had CG monkeys. Everyone but Indy was unlikable. The villain was lame, a cardinal sin in any action movie. But Last Crusade suffered all of that (except the CG monkeys) but it turned even Indy into a bumbling idiot. The FX were terrible, even for 1989. Sallah and Brody, who both had dignity in Raiders were turned into drunken morons.
Temple of Doom was the best sequel, especially if they left that ridiculous dining scene on the cutting room floor. Not the scenes with Indy. Starting with James Bond, it's a staple of action movies that the hero has a civil dinner with the villain before going at it. But the gross out shit had no purpose whatsoever. And they could have cut Short Round out completely and not lost anything.
But ever since he had a shark eat a child, Spielberg's been incapable of making a movie (that doesn't have Nazis) that doesn't feature at least one obnoxious kid.
But I digress. Crystal Skull wasn't that bad. And stop blaming Lucas for it if you didn't like it. I know it's fashionable to hate on Lucas now but Spielberg directed it. Everything that's on the screen is his doing, not Lucas'.

he all staring off into space and shit. His hair looks like he just stuck his finger in an electrical outlet and his facial expressions and mannerisms looks like he's on some mushrooms or acid man! I think that's why they stuck him in the middle.

Spielberg is doing Abe Linc and that robot movie so no time to direct any indy anytime soon, JJ Abrams is going to be doing Trek 2 and Howards is going to do Dark Tower
Favreau dosnt seem to have anything on after C&A...hes not directing Iron Man 3, plus he seems to have worked well with Ford plus proved his blockbuster credentials with the Iron Mans and (hopefully C&A)
there were rumours a while back that the story for Indiana 5 is set so behind the scenes im betting stuff is being put in place for an announcement soon...

We already know Lucas rejected a script that Spielberg and Ford were in love with. The Frank Darabont script is described as being the strongest Indy story ever created, but Lucas said no.
Lucas even said that Spielberg wanted to make it more archaeological more historical, while he wanted it more sci fi, more fantasy.
Buy Spielberg did direct so he shares the blame, but the chief villain in Lucas.

One doesn't need to relie on hear'say. The script has been online for years and many have read it, including myself. It's shit. Apart from a few particulars it's no better than the Koepp script, and in some cases, considerably worse. Lucas was correct in vetoing it.
Sorry, but Spielberg takes FULL responsibility for the disaster of Crystal Skull, not Lucas.

Caught your eye, didn't it? Take Charleton Heston's "slightly shady American adventurer" Harry Steele character from "Secret of the Aztecs" (1954), mix in some Carl Barks-inspired stunts and you get Indiana Jones. Wish they'd release that on DVD.
Miss Morris: Most men don't enjoy taking money from women.
Harry Steele: I do. It's the hardest to get, and it smells so good.

i know Spielberg wanted Connery for the whole James Bond is Indys father thing (as it was Spielberg who had wanted to direct a Bond picture which had sort of led him to doing Raiders) and Connery was in the midst of a big comeback at the time (Highlander, Untouchables oscar win, Hunt for Red October)
but logically wouldnt Chuck have been a better choice?
-he was 20 years older than Ford - unlike Connery who was merely 12 years his senior
-he was American
-Secret of the Incas (1954) was a big influnece on Indiana Jones
its odd as you never ever hear about Heston being a possibilty in any making ofs or anything and youd think hed have been on the short list
i suppose Heston would’ve been a great choice for Abner if theyd made an Indy in the 1990s that included Abner Ravenwood (which always felt like some kind of loose end in Raiders...i never believed Abner was dead...and thought he would be introduced if they ever made indy 4)

To fix the mistakes of Crystal Bomb. Indy needs to go an adventure with a female, not a teen boy; the bad guy needs to not be a girl or some famous actor we've seen a million times; there needs to be real tangible danger; and NO CGI animals or bugs. The real deal. And not with the DP of Crystal. And someone should die.
Come to think of it, maybe they should just leave it alone. I'm waiting for the BD Trilogy pack, which Crystal Bomb will not be placed next to or anywhere in plain sight.

Plus there's even a greater resemblance between Ford and Heston.
Strangely, though, while Connery's Henry Jones was a scholar somewhat mystified and even embarrassed by his son's exploits, I could easily see a Heston-version of Henry Jones going in the opposite direction—the tough-as-nails adventurer who's a little disappointed that his son turned out to be an egghead.
More disturbing still are rumors that Paramount, which owns both "Secret of the Incas" and the Indiana Jones franchise, won't release the former for fear of offending the creators of the latter. Though I am told it is available—streaming only—on Netflix.

Secret of the Incas, The Private War of Major Benson (which I believe was the basis for Major Payne), The President's Lady, 55 Days at Peking . . . all part of the Charlton Heston DVD Collection that isn't.

A few weeks ago I went to a bar in Hollywood and met an agent trainee at UTA, some fresh faced 21 year old kid...I asked him what his favorite movie is...he said The Fast and Furious...I shit you not. The kid has probably never even heard of John Ford.